Description
Principles of Clinical Medicine is a four-part clinical skills based course that is taught during the first four semesters and is coordinated with the systems courses. The course is designed to progress over the four semesters and provide the student with the knowledge and educational experiences that will allow the student to develop active clinical thinking skills, acquire medical and social knowledge, develop the skills needed to complete a comprehensive or focused history physical examination, demonstrate documentation and order writing skills, demonstrate competency and the clinical application of basic medical procedures, and develop critical clinical thinking. The course content will be divided into several areas that include: history and physical exam, skills laboratories and small group discussions, basic medical procedures, doctor-patient relationship skills, ethics, community medicine, clinical thinking and problem solving, and standardized patient experiences.